THL 12 Social Justice 1-3 - 3

Across

1. Acts of Charity are actions of social ___ because they are individual actions responding to immediate needs and addressing symptoms of injustice.
4. In the parable of the ___ ___ Jesus teaches that our neighbor is everyone (two words).
8. A type of justice that sees to the just distribution of the goods of creation.
9. The power to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility (2 words).
12. Rights that are inherent and beyond challenge.
13. Helps us desire heaven and eternal happiness, trusting firmly in Christ’s promises.
14. Individual ___ are the foundation, cause, and end of all social institutions.
16. This is the heart of Christian morality.
18. Our sins sometimes develop into ___ of sin that create unjust societies.
19. Before God we are all ___.
23. God’s plan written into the way he made things (two words).
25. Jesus takes the side of those most in ___, physically and spiritually.
29. All rights have corresponding ___.
30. The virtue of social charity, friendship, and responsible sharing whereby we recognize our interdependence.
32. The quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed.
33. The life, death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus (two words).
34. St. Therese’ ______ of Holiness consists of accepting God’s love for us, and living that out in everyday ways (two words).
35. He quoted Isaiah when he said: "The Spirit is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor…".
38. The U.S. Catholic bishops highlighted seven ___ that serve as the foundation of the Church’s social teaching.
40. Gives us the firmness, strength, and courage to deal with temptations, difficulties, and dangers in doing what is right.
44. An open-ended bond of love between God and his people.
45. Those who wish to embrace God’s kingdom must live according to the ___ Jesus expressed in the Sermon on the Mount.
46. One way individuals can make a difference.
47. He used an analogy in his letters that compared the members of the Church working for the common good with the different parts of the body working together (two words).
48. A type of justice that calls for fairness in exchanges between individuals and private groups.
50. This principle calls us to protect the people and all of God’s creation.
53. State of complete harmony humans had in the beginning between each other and with creation (two words).
54. A pastoral papal letter sent to the whole Church, sometimes to all people, on an important aspect of Church teaching.
57. Hinge virtues that enable us to live moral lives.
58. Claims we can make on each other and on society to guarantee attaining certain basic minimum conditions to live a truly human life.
59. The Genesis creation account reveals that each of us is made in ___ ___ (two words).
61. God revealed that the Divine ___ is communal and social.
62. The rules, ___ and procedures of society must serve people and not vice versa.
63. The most basic society to which humans belong.
64. Rights that are untouchable because they come from God.
65. A type of justice that applies the gospel message of Jesus Christ to the structures, systems, and laws of society in order to guarantee the rights of individuals.
66. The parable of the day ___ shows that God treats us in a way that differs from the world’s standards.

Down

1. A group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond them.
2. The establishment of a just society would be impossible without this.
3. One of the three essential elements of the common good: Social well-being and ___.
5. Enables us to love God above everything for his own sake and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
6. Good common sense, human reason married to truth.
7. A habitual and firm disposition to do good.
10. In the parable of the ___ and sheep we learn that our judgment is based on how we respond to the needs of the least in our midst.
11. Rights that are for every human being.
15. The natural law is unchangeable and ___.
16. A type of justice that regulates citizens’ obligations to the larger society and government.
17. The principle of dignity of work is concerned with the rights of ___.
20. The first Christians shared their ___ and goods.
21. Virtues that are God-given and direct us to our loving, Triune God.
22. The seminal social justice encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII (two words).
24. These laws on the national level are necessary to guarantee that basic human rights are respected in all states (two words).
26. The ___ ___ guides us to live loving and just lives as God intends (two words).
27. Biblical justice is ___ to God, neighbor, and to God’s created goods.
28. The free and undeserved gift of God’s loving and active presence in in our lives.
30. The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unity of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well.
31. This enables us to recognize and understand God’s command to do good and avoid evil.
36. Jesus said that whoever wishes to be great among you will be your ___.
37. The sum of the spiritual, material, and social conditions needed for a person to achieve full human dignity (two words).
39. One of the three essential elements of the common good: ___ for the persons.
41. The ___ option for the poor sees things from their perspective.
42. Moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created good.
43. The moral and cardinal virtue by which we give God and our neighbor what is their due right.
49. The state or condition of sin into which all generations of people are born (two words).
51. Though Charity and Justice work hand-in-hand, Charity cannot be a ___ for Justice.
52. Natural law is the basis of this (two words).
55. Empowers us to believe in God and all that God has said and revealed to us.
56. Original ___ is the first state of human beings in their relationship with God, symbolized by Adam and Eve’s sharing in the divine life in full communion with God.
60. The Church in the Modern World says that everyone must consider his every neighbor, without exception, as another ___.